Word: blossomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accepted and universal part of education. Says Father John Culkin, head of Fordham's Center for Communications: "Students ought to be learning the fundamentals in grade school-early high school at the latest-so that when they finally get to college, they have an opportunity to blossom out, without worrying about the mechanics...
Staying Hitched. Born in 1868 in a mud-chinked cabin near Blossom Prairie, Garner took to politics like a bird dog after quail. In 15 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, he rose to Speaker; then in 1932 he made a bid for the presidency. With potent support from William Randolph Hearst, Garner held the Texas and California delegations until the fourth ballot, then threw his votes to F.D.R., in a deal that made him the ticket...
...paintings, for all their bizarre imagery, are alive with color. De Kooning's intricate palette combines lemon, lime, fig, plum, raspberry, apricot and apple-blossom pink. Flooding the canvas is the clear country light that streams through his $200,000 studio, a structure that has gone through almost as many alterations as one of his paintings...
...honest, the picture may not be entirely gray. Last year we had a series of second-rate Be-Ins which could blossom into something this year. Furthermore, hippies got a toe-hold in Cambridge real-estate when James Calvert '67 bought a store-front on Mt. Auburn Street and turned it into an exotic coffee-house, restaurant called El Diablo...
...motley an assortment of tribesmen, fugitives, thieves, freebooters and smugglers as exists anywhere on earth. They come and they stay on for only one reason: be cause of certain distinctions of climate and soil, Papaver somniferum, the opium poppy, finds the place unusually congenial. Each spring the hillsides blossom into white and purple waves of flowers. The annual harvest produces 1,000 tons of raw opium - 90% of the world's supply...